388 NOCTUIDE. 
indistinct, blackish, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to 
vein 4, then slightly incurved, defined on inner side by some 
golden scales; subteriainal line grey defined on inner side by 
Fig. 147.—Agquis orbicularis, 8. }. 
some golden scales, minutely dentate, excurved below vein 7 and 
at middle ; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing 
fuscous brown with a fine pale line at base of cilia; the underside 
greyer. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with black mark in submedian fold before 
antemedial line. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with basal half grey-white and without golden 
scales, 
Ab. 3. Similar but fore wing with black patch at base of costa. 
Ab. 4. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing with black streak in 
submedian fold before the antemedial line, and spot beyond it. 
Ab. 5. baboont. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing with the grey 
produced on inner area to tornus. 
Ab, 6. crenulata. Fore wing with both basal and terminal areas 
grey, a black band on outer medial area. 
Ab. 7. Similar but fore wing with black patch at base of costa. 
Ab. 8. Fore wing grey with black patch at base of costa and 
fascia below the cell from base to termen. 
Ab. 9. The type. Fore wing deep purple irrorated with fulvous 
yellow especially on antemedial area, the postmedial and terminal 
areas white irrorated with fulvous yellow except towards costa. 
Hab. Sixuim (Pilcher, Dudgeon, Méller), 8 3, 14 2 ; Cnyron, 
(Templeton), 1 3 type, Wattegama (Green), 1 5 ; Stncarornn(Ltidley, 
Wood-Jones), 1 6,2 9 3 Borneo, Sandakan (Pryer), 1 9 : Durcu 
N. Guryea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 ¢; Br. N. Guryea, types T crenulata 
and baboont in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Lwp, 22-28 millim. Type 
griseinigra 7 im Coll. Rothschild. 
EE ATE Re et ne ae 
Genus BARASA. 
Type. 
Barasa, Wik. Journ. Linn, Soe., Zool. vi. p. 192 (1862)...... acronyctoides, 
Ceparcha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1889, p. 476 ..........60.8. cymatistis, 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 
vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth, with ridge 
of scales above; eyes large, round; antenne of male with fascicles of long 
cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, 
the metathorax with depressed crest; tibiee moderately fringed with bair ; 
abdomen with dorsal crests on three basal segments. Fore wing with the apex 
